Christmas - Stories from the Dark Side

Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by David Shaw Parker, Tom McLean and Ghizela Rowe

Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events.

Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to take life and liberty from people who may and who may not deserve the spin of its wheel.

Some are merely evil, others have the beginnings of a conscience that displays itself in a dialogue with the devil, or perhaps only themselves.

But, in this volume Christmas takes a ringside seat to the horrors of the human heart.

1 - Christmas. Stories from the Dark Side - An Introduction

2 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

3 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather

4 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Nov 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781839676925

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.